International Cricket Council has announced the squads of all the 14 teams participating in the world T20 qualifiers. This event will be held from 9th to 26th July 2015 in Ireland and Scotland.
The top 6 teams in the 18 day long tournament will join the 10 full members of the scheduled mega event. Total 51 matches will be played in the qualifying round. According to the format, the top two teams of both the groups will directly qualify for the T20 world cup 2016 while the 3rd and 4th position holders of both the groups will play each other to qualify for the T20 world cup.
The squads are as follows:
NETHERLANDS: Peter Borren (captain), Rahil Ahmed, Wesley Barresi, Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Vivian Kingma, Ahsan Malik, Thijs van Schelven, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Stephan Myburgh, Max O’Dowd, Michael Rippon, Timm van der Gugten, Paul van Meekeren
AFGHANISTAN: Asghar Stanikzai (captain), Javed Ahmadi, Hamid Hassan, Nawroz Mangal, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Shafiqullah Shafaq, Mohammad Shahzad, Samiullah Shinwari, Dawlat Zadran, Najib Zadran, Shahpur Zadran, Aftab Alam, Mirwais Ashraf, Sharafudin Ashraf,
CANADA: Rizwan Cheema (captain), Saad Bin Zafar, Khurram Chohan, Navneet Dhaliwal, Satsimranjit Dhindsa, Nikhil Dutta, Jeremy Gordon, Shaheed Keshvani, Nitish Kumar, Cecil Pervez, Junaid Siddiqui, Hamza Tariq, Srimantha Wijeyeratne, Ruvindu Gunasekera, Amarbir Hansra
HONG KONG: Tanwir Afzal (captain), Irfan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed, Haseeb Amjad, Jamie Atkinson, Waqas Barkat, Mark Chapman, Aizaz Khan, Anas Khan, Anshuman Rath, Kinchit Shah,Nizakat Khan, Waqas Khan, Ehsan Nawaz, Babar Hayat
IRELAND: William Porterfield (captain), Andrew Balbirnie, Andrew McBrine, Graeme McCarter, John Mooney, Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien, Stuart Poynter, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young, Alex Cusack, George Dockrell, Tyrone Kane
JERSEY: Peter Gough (captain), Corey Bisson, Ed Farley, Anthony Kay, Jonty Jenner, Ben Kynman, Tommy Minty, Rhys Palmer, Chuggy Perchard, Callum Rabet, Ben Stevens, Nat Watkins, Dom Blampied, Corne Bodenstein, Paul Connolly
KENYA: Rakep Patel (captain), Emmanuel Bundi, Narendra Kalyan, Irfan Karim, Karan Kaul, Lucas Ndandason, James Ngoche, Shem Ngoche, Collins Obuya, Nelson Odhiambo, Elijah Otieno, Morris Ouma, Gurdeep Singh, Eugene Ochieng, Nehemiah Odhiambo
NAMIBIA: Nicholas Scholtz (captain), Stephen Baard, Gerhard Erasmus, Zhivago Groenewald, Louis Klazinga, JP Kotze, Bernard Scholtz, JJ Smit, Christiaan Snyman, Gerrie Snyman, Raymond van Schoor, Craig Williams, Sarel Burger, Christopher Coombe, Jason Davidson
NEPAL: Paras Khadka (captain), Pradeep Airee, Binod Bhandari, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Subash Khakurel, Siddhant Lohani, Gyanendra Malla, Basant Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Anil Mandal, Jitendra Mukhiya, Rajesh Pulami, Sagar Pun
OMAN: Sultan Ahmed (captain), Yousuf Abdulrahim, Zeeshan Ahmad, Amir Ali, Khawar Ali, Sufyan Mahmood, Zeeshan Maqsood, Muhammad Nadeem, Rajeshkumar Ranpura, Jatinder Singh, Vaibhav Wategaonkar, Munis Ansari, Aamir Kaleem, Mehran Khan, Ajay Lalcheta
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Jack Vare (captain), Charles Amini, Sese Bau, Loa Nou, Kila Pala, Pipi Raho, Lega Siaka, Chad Soper, Tony Ura, Vani Vagi, Assadollah Vala, Norman Vanua, John Boge Reva, Mahuru Dai, Willie Gavera
SCOTLAND: Preston Mommsen (captain), Richie Berrington, Kyle Coetzer, Matthew Cross, Josh Davey, Con de Lange, Alasdair Evans, George Munsey, Safyaan Sharif, Rob Taylor, Craig Wallace, Mark Watt, Michael Leask, Calum MacLeod, Gavin Main,
UAE: Mohamed Tauqir (captain), Fayyaz Ahmed, Amjad Ali, Faizan Asif, Nasir Aziz, Manjula Guruge, Amjad Javed, Muhammad Naveed, Swapnil Patil, Ahmed Raza, Muhammad Shahzad, Abdul Shakoor
USA: Muhammad Ghous (captain), Alex Amsterdam, Fahad Babar, Adil Bhatti, Akeem Dodson, Karan Ganesh, Naseer Jamali, Japen Patel, Mrunal Patel, Timil Patel, Hammad Shahid, Jasdeep Singh, Nicholas Stanford, Steven Taylor, Shiva Vashishat, Saqib Ali, Umair Ali, Shaiman Anwar,